AI Hype vs Reality

What hype has become true? Which claims make you skeptical now? How do you separate hype from reality? …

AI Harness Wars

Which harnesses do you use? How do you compare harnesses? What power do they give you? What do they lack? What will harnesses look like a …

The Model is not the Product Anymore

AI competition is shifting from model benchmarks to harnesses that turn intelligence into delegated work while balancing autonomy, control, …

The Bottleneck Moved

Two years ago, if someone asked how to build a startup faster, the answer was relatively simple: Hire more engineers. Or hire better …

Running Startups at Speed and Scale

What limits speed and scale at a startup? How do you scale without slowing down? What accelerates your production?

Contents

• Lightning Talk …

What Is Testing When the Machine Writes the Code

For twenty years the test pyramid told us the same thing. Pile up unit tests at the bottom, cheap and fast and stable, and keep UI and …

AI and Software Testing

How does AI alter your software testing strategy? Does it make testing more or less beneficial? Does it change where testing occurs in your …

Kill Your Darlings

I excitedly volunteered to give this lightning talk on “Thinking Like A CEO” because working with dozens of founders a week, …

Thinking Like a CEO

How do you delegate at the C-Level? How do you solve problems where you lack mastery? What metrics matter for the business? How do you move …

The Product Question

Raise your hand if you’ve ever shipped something on time, on budget, technically clean — and nobody used it.

Yeah. Me too. And …